# Lua headers **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [February 27, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lua-headers/203773 "2011-02-27T00:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lua-headers/203773/1 "2011-02-27T00:23:30Z")
Hi Is it possible to set the headers of a lua request to my auth server? I can set the querystring/args as shown in a few examples but never seen headers being set in lua? Many thanks Sent from my iPhone ---
**Author:** ![rkoskela](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@rkoskela](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rkoskela)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lua-headers/203773/2 "2011-02-28T08:57:56Z")
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Richard K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi Sorry for the delay. I’ve been on holiday in the next few days 😛 > Is it possible to set the headers of a lua request to my auth server? Yes, use the ngx\_headers\_more module’s more\_set\_input\_headers directive or ngx\_proxy module’s proxy\_set\_header directive in your auth server’s proxy location. ``` http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule#proxy_set_header ``` > I can set the querystring/args as shown in a few examples but never seen > headers being set in lua? BTW, by default, the main request’s headers will be forwarded to your subrequest destination locations. If that’s not what you want, use the proxy\_pass\_request\_headers directive to disable that: ``` http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule#proxy_pass_request_headers ``` For now, setting subrequest headers from within Lua is not implemented yet in ngx\_lua. But it’s on our TODO list 🙂 Cheers, -agentzh